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Out of pure curiosity (and boredom) I decided to test out Windows 7 RTM today. What follows is a short evaluation of Windows 7 and some of its features.
Firstly installation was an absolute breeze. I left my computer thinking it was going to take about 45 mins or so to install (from a usb drive) but when I returned 30 minutes later to check on it, the installation was already done and over with. So far so good. A few moments later I was ready to start for the first time and I have to admit I was really nervous. I installed on my laptop which happens to be the only computer that's worth a shit in my house so I was really hoping nothing had gone wrong.
Started up just fine, and quickly to boot. First thing I did was install an anti-virus program and Magiciso to help me out with the next few things. Next thing I went into the "network and sharing center" which I've come to think of more as a place where networks go to die. Vista seriously ruined the simplicity of connecting and managing networks with this half-assed excuse for a networking center. I wouldn't have ever referred to networking as simple if it had not been for Windows 7 though. I plugged in the ethernet cable and wala, two seconds later I had internet. No configuring, no manually entering IP's and especially no diagnosing problem dialogues.
A trip into the device manager yielded some expected bad news. There were about 5 or 6 yellow exclamations notifying me of unrecognized hardware and missing drivers. In the past I had to go to great lengths to find the correct drivers because the update driver information always got it wrong...not this time. All but one of the missing drivers were found this way in under 5 minutes. I paid a lot of money for this laptop when i got it (several years ago) so having good hardware sitting there unrecognized was like having 2k worth of goodies that you cant use. Something Vista seemed destined to see me suffer.
From here on out everything just got better. All my programs installed and worked just fine. Some even worked faster and more efficiently. I at one point had 6 or 7 processor and graphic heavy programs working at once and it did an outstanding job of multi-tasking them with no snags.Vista had a hard time running Photoshop and Itunes at the same time :/
The UI is clean and fast, easy to navigate and a little fun I must add. Dragging windows to the sides snaps them into preconfigured arrangements and the taskbar has been improved a number of ways. It reminds me of OS X's dock which I happen to love so that might be why I enjoy it so much.
Overall, I'm supremely glad I made the update and I'll probably cry in 3 months when it expires.
P.S. no, the background didn't come with the OS, I got it from Desktopography 2009 exhibition released! - Nature's design on your desktop
Firstly installation was an absolute breeze. I left my computer thinking it was going to take about 45 mins or so to install (from a usb drive) but when I returned 30 minutes later to check on it, the installation was already done and over with. So far so good. A few moments later I was ready to start for the first time and I have to admit I was really nervous. I installed on my laptop which happens to be the only computer that's worth a shit in my house so I was really hoping nothing had gone wrong.
Started up just fine, and quickly to boot. First thing I did was install an anti-virus program and Magiciso to help me out with the next few things. Next thing I went into the "network and sharing center" which I've come to think of more as a place where networks go to die. Vista seriously ruined the simplicity of connecting and managing networks with this half-assed excuse for a networking center. I wouldn't have ever referred to networking as simple if it had not been for Windows 7 though. I plugged in the ethernet cable and wala, two seconds later I had internet. No configuring, no manually entering IP's and especially no diagnosing problem dialogues.
A trip into the device manager yielded some expected bad news. There were about 5 or 6 yellow exclamations notifying me of unrecognized hardware and missing drivers. In the past I had to go to great lengths to find the correct drivers because the update driver information always got it wrong...not this time. All but one of the missing drivers were found this way in under 5 minutes. I paid a lot of money for this laptop when i got it (several years ago) so having good hardware sitting there unrecognized was like having 2k worth of goodies that you cant use. Something Vista seemed destined to see me suffer.
From here on out everything just got better. All my programs installed and worked just fine. Some even worked faster and more efficiently. I at one point had 6 or 7 processor and graphic heavy programs working at once and it did an outstanding job of multi-tasking them with no snags.Vista had a hard time running Photoshop and Itunes at the same time :/
The UI is clean and fast, easy to navigate and a little fun I must add. Dragging windows to the sides snaps them into preconfigured arrangements and the taskbar has been improved a number of ways. It reminds me of OS X's dock which I happen to love so that might be why I enjoy it so much.
Overall, I'm supremely glad I made the update and I'll probably cry in 3 months when it expires.
P.S. no, the background didn't come with the OS, I got it from Desktopography 2009 exhibition released! - Nature's design on your desktop
. They had it coming to them making me pay for Vista.
